| Appointed Chancellor of Fayetteville State
University in 1995, Dr. Willis B. McLeod brings to his alma mater over 30 years of
professional experience in the field of education. He is the eighth chief executive
officer of the 129-year-old institution, and the first alumnus Chancellor since
Fayetteville State University became a constituent institution of The University of North
Carolina in 1972. He serves on the Board of
Directors of the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education Foundation; the
Fayetteville Area Economic Development Corporation; Fayetteville Partnership, Inc.; the
Fayetteville United Way; the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce; the Cumberland County
Education Foundation; the Executive Board of the Occoneechee Council of Boy Scouts of
America; the Board of Directors of the Fayetteville YMCA; the Board of Directors of
Operation Sickle Cell, Inc.; and is a member of the American Association of School
Administrators Urban Affairs Committee. He has been accepted to the 1996 class of the
Harvard University Seminar for New Presidents.
Awards received by Dr. McLeod in acknowledgement of his
outstanding leadership abilities include the Distinguished Alumni Award, National
Association of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO); Administrator of the Year,
Tri Cities Association of Educational Office Personnel; Educator of the Year, Virginia
State Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa; Distinguished Service Award, Petersburg, VA Board of
Education; and National Alumni Meritorious Award, FSU. He is the recipient of Keys to the
Cities of Petersburg, VA; Columbia, SC; and Dunn, NC. Dr. McLeod has played a prominent
role in FSU's Youth Motivation Task Force program for many years.
He is a lifetime member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and
one of the founders of FSU's Epsilon Beta Chapter. Other professional and civic
organizations in which he holds memberships are the National Alliance of Black School
Educators, the American Association of School Administrators, the Black Family Summit
Planning Committee, the FSU National Alumni Association, and he is a Life Member of the
NAACP.
Following graduation from FSU in 1964, Dr. McLeod began his
career as a mathematics teacher in Richmond, Virginia. From there, his career spanned
through the ranks of Principal, Assistant and Associate Superintendent, Superintendent,
and now Chancellor of his alma mater. He holds a B.S. Degree in Mathematics from
Fayetteville State University and earned his M.Ed. Degree in Elementary School
Administration and Ed.D. in School Administration from the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville, Virginia. A native of Dunn, North Carolina, Dr. McLeod is a member of the
Dunn Chapel Freewill Baptist Church. He is married to the former Jacqueline Cumbo and has
one son, Jeffrey, who is an FSU graduate and an attorney. |
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